Meanwhile everyone else fights around them for a different set of “gamer” customers, and the title goes back and forth.
PS3 and Xbox 360 were essentially a tie, but sony has maintained a pretty healthy lead for the other PlayStation generations.
My thought is that Nintendo in a way might’ve intentionally made the Switch’s UI so soulless and depressing to have a bigger differentiator with the Switch 2
The UI has been largely static since launch in 2017.
If anything they would have been differentiating from 3ds/WiiU.
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Hopefully they let the OG switch titles run with more horsepower.
It would be simpler for them to drop the clock cycle on the new hardware down to match the original hardware when running the BC titles, that way they don’t have to do as much testing to look for side effects.
That’s kind of expected, even without weird peripherals.
Every time a console offers platform level BC there are a few games that uses some undocumented trick to run on the original hardware and end up having trouble on the new hardware.
This is how Sony presents the situation, stating that 4000+ ps4 titles will work on ps5 and then naming the few that don’t:
https://www.playstation.com/en-au/support/games/ps5-backward-compatibility-games/#only
IIRC the list was a little bit longer at first but some devs patched their titles to fix compatibility.
We haven’t officially seen the specs yet but it seems safe to say they are more powerful and that “Switch 2 exclusive games” can access that power. That will mean its more like DS/3DS (or PS4/PS5) in that the new gen will get its own library but will still have access to the sizable software catalogue from the earlier gen.
Fair enough.
Its exactly the kind of thing the Stop Killing Games campaign is trying to help with.
Keeping an internet facing service online is unfortunately expensive if you want to keep it patched.
The need to migrate to a new OS every few years to keep the security updates going does force them to weight the pros and cons periodically.
I don’t like it happening but I can see how they can decide to pull the plug.
IIRC the 360 started strong but the PS3 did better in the second half of that gen.
The numbers we have are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles
To my mind that’s a wash.
When you consider how these brands performed in the previous gen (>160m vs 24m) and following gen (117m vs ~58m), the 360/PS3 race was remarkably close.